Web Tools #584 - Frameworks, AI Tools, Uncats

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Issue #584 • September 26, 2024

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Web Frameworks

Saasternity — An open-source SaaS boilerplate, built with Next.js and Aceternity UI, deployed on Vercel.

Vike — A flexible, community-driven, scalable, fast, and full-featured Vite-based frontend framework with no configuration needed.

The Monospace Web — Not exactly a framework or template but a "minimalist design exploration" that uses a monospaced font and monospaced responsive grid system, with default styles for elements, all of which you can use via the code on GitHub.

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v1 — An opinionated, open-source starter kit based on Midday, a tool for real-time insight into your business's financial state, powered by Next.js, Turborepo, Biome, Tailwind, and lots more.

MaxiBlocks — A template and pattern design library for WordPress. The free version includes 500+ library assets and the basic templates.

EasyFrontend — A huge library of 700+ free UI components, templates, blocks, and sections, for building websites with HTML, React, Bootstrap, and Tailwind.

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Vuesion — A full-stack Vue boilerplate powered by TypeScript, ESLint, Husky, Vitest, Testing Library, and more.

Dani — A simple development and website setup for developing, documenting, and showcasing your JavaScript library.

Frontend Boilerplates — An older project that features a directory of categorized boilerplates for ES6, Vue, React, Nuxt, TypeScript, SCSS, and Node.js.
 

AI & ChatGPT Tools

zsh-copilot — A shell program powered by OpenAI that works like GitHub Copilot for the command line.

HumanifyJS — A tool that uses large language models (like ChatGPT & llama) and other tools to deobfuscate, unminify, transpile, decompile, and unpack JavaScript code.

Frontend AI — An AI-powered assistant that lets you ask for a component or upload an image, and instantly receive ready-to-use code.

Frontend AI

Llama Coder — An open source TypeScript-based tool to generate small apps with one prompt, powered by Llama 3 405B and Together AI.

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Melty — An AI code editor where every chat message is a Git commit and that stays in sync with you like a pair programmer so you never have to explain what you’re doing.

draw-a-ui — A TypeScript-based app that uses tldraw (the collaborative whiteboarding tool) and the GPT-4 Vision API to generate HTML based on a wireframe you draw.

Local Llama — A local frontend for Ollama (a platform for running LLMs) built on Remix that you can use as is or as a starting point for your own project.

GPTHub — A searchable directory of 700+ custom ChatGPTs with fuzzy search and detailed info on each custom GPT.

Magika — A novel AI powered file type detection tool by Google that allows you to detect file content types with deep learning.
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The Uncateg­orizables

ai.robots.txt — An open list of web crawlers associated with AI companies and the training of LLMs, so you can block them on your server if needed, in JSON and text formats.

TextMate Highlighter — An isomorphic syntax highlighter using TextMate grammars and VS Code themes.

Departure Mono — A monospaced pixel font with a lo-fi technical vibe, inspired by the constraints of early CLIs and GUIs and the tiny pixel fonts of the late 90s and early 2000s.

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Python-Fiddle — An online Python compiler, IDE, and interpreter to write, run, and share Python code directly in the browser without installing and maintaining Python and its packages.

Python-Fiddle

Free Public APIs —  A searchable and categorized collection of 300+ free public APIs, tested daily with bots to ensure only working APIs are listed.

MicroRealEstate — An open-source real estate management system that helps landlords to manage their rentals and properties.

IndieVoice — A platform that allows you to upload your project so you can get feedback from other creators and hackers.

dukpy — A simple JavaScript interpreter for Python built on Duktape (the embeddable JavaScript engine), with transpilers for CoffeeScript, Babel, TypeScript, and JSX.

Zigar — A software tool set that lets you utilize Zig code in your JavaScript projects.

Commercial Apps & Classifieds

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Faceswap.tech – An AI face-swapping tool to seamlessly swap faces in photos, videos, and GIFs.
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16x Prompt – A platform for structured prompt creation to manage source code context.
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Next.js Boilerplate – A full-stack React template to build SaaS projects with auth and more.
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